Marriage Quotes - Page 26

• The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Best Friend, Wife

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Needs, Virtue

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• Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back. You can pretend, but that pretension makes you a hypocrite. And your pretension cannot deceive the woman, because she has known your love and the pretension cannot become the substitute. The only way is to separate - in friendship, because you have given each other so much.

  Rajneesh

  Hypocrite, Arbitrary, Way

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• On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Spiritual, Soulmate

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• Love is the law of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Law, Love Life

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• Marriage is a totally different phenomenon: it is the climax of love. Then it is good. I am not against marriage - I am for the REAL marriage. I am against the false, the pseudo, that exists. But it is an arrangement. It gives you a certain security, safety, occupation. It keeps you engaged. Otherwise, it gives you no enrichment, it gives you no nourishment.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Safety, Giving

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• Happiness is love, nothing else.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Happiness

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• The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Hatred, Soul

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• One should marry only when one is wise enough. Marriage is not for young people. For young people is to fool around. Marriage is for those who have experienced life in many ways, who have seen all the colors, the whole spectrum of it, and are now ready to settle.

  Rajneesh

  Wise, Color, People

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• Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

  Howard Gardner

  Love, Fall, Creativity

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• The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Love, Compassion, Perfection

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• A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Firsts, Hotel, Rate

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.30, BookBaby

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• The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and you have experienced all the joys and all the miseries, and still you decide to be with the person, then marriage is okay. Because marriage is only a legal arrangement, it cannot make anything more beautiful than it is. It can only make it ugly, it cannot beautify it. Once it is settled legally, once you start taking each other for granted, things will start going down rather than rising high.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Deep Love, Years

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• There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax -- and that highest climax IS marriage. It has nothing to do with law. It is a merging of two hearts into totality. It is the functioning of two persons in synchronicity -- that is marriage.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Law, Two

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• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

  Erica Jong

  Broken Heart, Divorce, Insightful

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.

  Les Dawson

  Couple, Sex Maniac, Institutions

  Les Dawson (2013). “No Tears for the Clown: An Autobiography”, p.95, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Real, Mistake

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

  Ovid

  Memories, Equal, Ifs

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• ...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

  Robert Kennedy

  Country, Children, Integrity

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• Man was not intended to live alone... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more settled than you all. I would immensely like to see you all married like myself and anchored.

  John Everett Millais

  Wedding, Men, Thinking

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• We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

  Nick Faldo

  Golf, Eight, Years

  "Learning to smile" by Nick Green, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.

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• Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of a supreme affection; but, if you will give me that world, there will be in it very few not called to marriage, provided society allows proper opportunities for acquaintance between marriageable persons.

  Joseph Cook

  Wedding, Opportunity, Law

  Joseph Cook (1879). “Monday Lectures in Tremont Hall, Boston, U.S.”

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• You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes things so dead and dull. Marriage takes all surprise and wonder away. Marriage makes you take your wife for granted, your husband for granted. What is the need to look at your wife? She will be there tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and forever. You look at people when you know you may not be able to look at them again. Marriage kills; it makes something tremendously beautiful very ugly.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Husband, Simple

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• What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between two people, the thought of taking vows never arises. This is only an indication of the absence of love. People do not marry out of love; they marry out of fear. If there is love on this earth, marriage will become redundant. When love is not, marriage is a must. We make arrangements for that which we cannot do. We make rules for that which we are not sure of.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Two, People

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• We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Evil, Nuclear Families, Definitions

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